Scope and Topics

Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks.

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer.

Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:

Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking

Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN

Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking

MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond)

Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols

Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols

Quality of Services provisioning

Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks

Network deployment, localization, and synchronization

Topology construction and maintenance

Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation

Modeling and performance evaluations

Physical layer techniques

Cross layer optimizations

Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms

Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures

Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks

Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks

Testbed, prototype, and practical systems

Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks

Wireless sensor networks and RFID

Important Dates

Paper submission due: 11:59PM EDT, April 6, 2007 (closed)

Acceptance notification: May 11, 2007

Camera-ready due and registration deadline: May 28th, 2007

Workshop: August 16, 2007

Submissions and Publications

Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review somewhere else, are solicited. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited up to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). WiMAN 2007 uses EDAS system (http://edas.info/) for paper submission (When login EDAS, please click submit paper tab, and then select ICCCN 2007 and click the associated submit icon, in the tracks page please select WiMAN 2007 to submit your paper). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library.

Keynote Address

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Abstract

Sensor networks open significant challenges in distributed computing that arise from their unstructured distributed nature. Significant efforts have gone into developing protocols, abstractions, and high-level programming paradigms for facilitating sensor network deployment, geared mostly for a class of proposed applications. This talk presents new directions in sensor network protocol and application design, as well as future challenges that stem from changes in application focus.

Speaker Biography

Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1990 and 1994 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1999 on Quality of Service Adaptation in Real-Time Systems.

He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Software Predictability Group. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has authored/coauthored five book chapters and more than 80 refereed publications in several fields including real-time computing, distributed systems, sensor networks, and control. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Real-Time Systems, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks, the International Journal of Embedded Systems and the Ad Hoc Networks Journal, as well as Editor of ACM SIGBED Review. He held several conference organization positions including Program Chair of RTAS 2004, General Chair of RTAS 2005, Program Chair of RTSS 2006, General Chair of IPSN 2007, General Chair of RTSS 2007, and Sensor Network Vice Chair of ICDCS 2006 and DCoSS 2006. Abdelzaher's research interests lie broadly in understanding and controlling performance of distributed software systems in the face of increasing complexity, distribution, and degree of embedding in an external physical environment. Tarek Abdelzaher is a member of IEEE and ACM.